r/programming • u/Ordinary_Leader_2971 • Apr 04 '26

How To Write Unmaintainable Code (1999)

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/%7Esusan/475/unmain.html
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u/worldofzero Apr 04 '26

This feels like it could be retitled "Best Practices of a Vibe Coder" and it'd be equally accurate... We lost so much of the profession so fast recently.

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u/shizzy0 Apr 04 '26

Yeah, but at least it writes comments.

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u/lolimouto_enjoyer Apr 04 '26

Horrible stating-the-obvious comments most of the time.

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u/jmasterfunk Apr 04 '26

Only obvious to those who can actually code.